A high-level committee, headed by Parekh, will tomorrow submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on funding of infrastructure sector.LUCKNOW: Giving a concerted push to infrastructure projects in the state, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav tabled a Rs 19,824.98-crore supplementary budget - the last before the pre-election state budget -- on Monday. The supplementary budget, the largest the SP government has presented so far, is Rs 4,968-crore bigger than the previous supplementary budget of Rs 14,856 crore that the CM had presented in November last year.

Tabled amid protests and pandemonium -- Congress and BJP MLAs rushed to the well of the house and raised slogans against the government - was deemed read after the CM's voice was drowned out by sustained sloganeering from the opposition benches.

The budget gives a push to the government's pet projects; Lucknow Metro has got a Rs 200-crore boost after the PIB clearance while the Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway has been given an additional grant of Rs 220 crore. Taking the total funds for the flagship highway project to Rs 300 crore, the government also sanctioned Rs 80 crore to the department of social welfare (special component plan for scheduled castes) for rehabilitation of the affected SC communities under the project's social impact assessment.

There's succor in the supplementary budget for the state's beleaguered farmers' community. In long-awaited relief for the sugarcane farmers, the government has, after the high court's directions to ensure payment of pending sugarcane dues, made a provision of Rs 1,529 crore to sugar mills for payment of cane arrears. In addition, an amount of Rs 100 crore has been set aside for the state's co-operative sugar mills to settle dues.

The government has also made a budgetary allocation of Rs 5,209 crore under the disaster relief and rehabilitation head. This comprises an allocation of Rs 750 crore towards compensation to farmers affected by untimely rains and hailstorms, and includes Rs 500 crore - the expenditure incurred by the state from its Contingency Fund. Monday's supplementary budget has also made a provision for an addition inflow of Rs 25 crore to the Chief Minister's Discretionary Fund.

The lion's share of the supplementary budget, however, remains with the PWD and irrigation minister Shivpal Yadav's departments. While the budget includes an allocation of Rs 457.92crore for the repair, maintenance and construction of the state's roads, the proposed and underway irrigation projects in the state have been granted a sum Rs 974 crore; Rs 220 crore to fund SP's poll promise of free water supply from government-owned tubewells, and Rs 754 crore for other construction works under the irrigation department.

The chief minister on Monday also proposed an additional allocation of Rs 330.15 crore in the medical health, education and training department. This includes an allocation of Rs 200 crore for the Cancer Research Institute in Lucknow, and Rs 25 crore for construction works at Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences in the state capital. In the health department's allopathy wing, an allocation of Rs 58.25 crore includes an addition of 500 vehicles to the 108 Samajwadi Ambulance Services, and Rs 18 crore for setting up 10-bed dialysis units at all divisional headquarters of the state. The SP government has also set aside Rs 23.76 crore to tackle Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in slum dwellings. The Centre's flagship Swachh Bharat Mission (urban) has received an allocation of Rs 175 crore, while the rural arm of the project has been allotted 3.41 crore.